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Summer Camp for Enlight girl children in Chennai
Chennai, May 2023: On May 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2023, a summer camp was conducted for Enlight girls in Chennai at the Community Hall, Veerapuram, Avadi. 32 girl children from the age group of 10 to 17 from child support centres Kovilpadhagai, (Continue Reading)
‘ART’ therapy session conducted at Chennai
On April 25th, an ART therapy session was conducted for children at Chennai Enlight 2.0 Child Support Centre. The session was conducted by Ms. Sangamitra, an ART therapist, and Mr. Rakesh M. S., the H.R. Lead of BCM Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd. The (Continue Reading)
ENLIGHT 2.0 Project launched in Bhubaneswar
In March 2023, Aide et Action (India), Capgemini, and their partner - VIEWS launched 'ENLIGHT 2.0' project, in Bhubaneshwar. The project aims to provide quality education to over 200 girl children from rag-picking communities living in (Continue Reading)
ENLIGHT 2.0 project launched in Coimbatore
The ENLIGHT project 2.0 has extended its reach to Coimbatore, a city in the State of Tamil Nadu. The project aims to provide quality education to girl children from the most marginalized sections, particularly those belonging to manual scavenger (Continue Reading)
Enlight perspective building workshop held in Chennai
From March 6th to 8th, a perspective-building workshop was conducted for the Enlight project team at the Beverly Hotel in Chennai. The team consisted of members from various cities such as Bangalore, Salem, Trichy, Coimbatore, and (Continue Reading)
Perspective building workshop for Enlight project teams of Noida, Gurugram and Delhi
A 3-day ‘Perspective Building’ workshop was organized from 13th to 15th February 2023 for the staff of the Enlight project in Noida, Gurugram, and Delhi. Girls from Leprosy-infected/affected families, waste pickers, and manual (Continue Reading)
International Women's Day celebrated in Chennai
On March 16th, 2023, the Enlight project in Chennai celebrated International Women's Day at Govt. High School Kovilpadhagai, with the presence of key executives and enthusiastic employees from Capgemini. The event began with a welcome speech (Continue Reading)
AEA International Director General inaugurates STEM laboratory in Chennai
Trichy, 16th June 2022: During his recent visit to India, Mr. Charles-Emmanuel Ballanger, the International Director General of Aide et Action, had the opportunity to visit the Enlight project in Trichy. One of the highlights of his visit was the (Continue Reading)
ENLIGHT 2.0 LAUNCHED
After rigorously working for 5 years and attaining path-breaking results, the project (Continue Reading)
Perspective Building Workshop 2022
Continuing its efforts to provide access to quality education to girls in the most difficult circumstances, the (Continue Reading)
Enlight conducts COVID Vaccination Camp in Trichy
The project ENLIGHT organized a special COVID vaccination drive in collaboration with the Trichy City Corporation for members of the Manual Scavenging community in Trichy, where 60 adults received their COVID vaccinations. The event was organized (Continue Reading)
Entrepreneur development training for mothers of girl children in Salem
HIV/AIDS has a profound impact on the lives of infected/affected families. The epidemic has compounded a whole range of challenges surrounding poverty and inequalities, which adversely affect the education of children, especially girls. The (Continue Reading)
Career guidance program to help girl children of minority community chalk out career paths
The career choices confound the best of the students, especially those who belong to marginalized communities. The lack of exposure to the job opportunities may also destine the children to a lifetime working culture as casual laborers without (Continue Reading)
Enlight girls receive cash award for academic excellence
On World AIDS Day, two girl children - Sathya (12th standard) and Gopika (10th Standard) of Enlight project in Salem, received a cash prize of Rs. 3000 each from Shri. C.V Raman, District Collector for scoring well in their board examinations. (Continue Reading)
Connect & Drive on 13th & 20th May 2019
On 13 & 20th May 2019, a team from the global Capgemini office visited Bangalore -Enlight Child Support Centres (CSC) at Lakshmi Devi Nagar. The team visited the centre to understand the functioning and impact of the Enlight project on (Continue Reading)
Teacher Training on “Simplifying Hot Spots in Mathematics at Upper Primary Stage”
Chennai Region Enlight Project team organised a training on “Simplifying Hot Spots in Mathematics at Upper Primary Stage” for School Mathematics teachers in Trichy, Tamil Nadu in collaboration with District Institute of Education and (Continue Reading)
Exposure visit for children to Capgemini office in Bengaluru
Thirty girl children from Lakshmi Devi Nagar and Jai Bhuvaneswarinagar Child Support Centres in Bengaluru visited Capgemini office, Bangalore on 11th February 2020. The objective of the visit was to expose and provide them an (Continue Reading)
Girl Children in Mumbai participate in “storytelling” workshop by Decolonizing Futures
The Decolonizing Futures Initiative conducted a workshop for 30 girl children in Mumbai on 27th August. The workshop is a global initiative that promotes non-western methodologies in foresight inspired by the oral folk-storytelling tradition of (Continue Reading)
Capgemini team visits ENLIGHT Child Support Centre in Trichy
On 18th September 2019, Ms.Dhanasree and Ms.Leena David from Capgemini visited Ponniah Higher Secondary School and met the Headmaster along with the project co-ordinator. They discussed the STEEM corner and Computer Lab. They also (Continue Reading)
Legal Awareness program for Enlight project women in Bengaluru
The Enlight project in Bengaluru organized a one-day legal awareness programme for women in and around the project location in the month of August. The Karnataka State Women Development Committee President Ms. Poornima, Programme officer (WCD), (Continue Reading)
SIRAGUGAL 2018 - Flying High this summer
The Enlight project organized SIRAGUGAL 2018, a 3 day summer camp from 11th to 13th of May this year at Sri Ramakrishna Middle School, Auditorium, Woraiyur in Tiruchirappalli. The event was organized with the support of Capgemini & (Continue Reading)
Enlight Trichy organized Eye Camp for children and elders
The ENLIGHT team at Trichy organized an Eye camp at Dharmanathapuram on 23rd Dec, 2017 where 163 people benefitted from this event. The major objective for organizing this eye camp was because, the ENLIGHT team identified that children had (Continue Reading)
INDIA TODAY TV documents ENLIGHT project
The ‘Enlight’ project will be featured in the India Today documentary series as part of their CSR initiative to broadcast social development projects of 25 corporate giants in India. (Continue Reading)
Capgemini CSR Manager - Poland visits Enlight project in Hyderabad
Ms Karolina Dlugosz, Capgemini CSR Manager- Poland & Mr Anurag Pratap, Capgemini India CSR Leader visited the Enlight project in Hyderabad. During the visit, they interacted with the parents of girl children with disabilities and the project (Continue Reading)
Review, Reflection and Planning Exercise
The Enlight project team came together for a ‘Review, Reflection and Planning Exercise’ organized in Chennai in June 2017. The meeting was chaired by Ravi Pratap Singh, Regional Director – AEAI SA, and Sajeev Balan, (Continue Reading)
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